Mile 22 (2018)

[Robert Crawford]

Title: Mile 22

Tagline: Option 1: Diplomacy. Option 2: Military. Meet Option 3.

Genre: Action

Director: Peter Berg

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, John Malkovich, Ronda Jean Rousey, Iko Uwais, Alexandra Vino, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Sam Medina, Terry Kinney, Sala Baker, Poorna Jagannathan, Lauren Mary Kim, Peter Berg

Release: 2018-08-10

Runtime: 94

Plot: A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together in confronting political corruption. An informant must be moved twenty-two miles to safety.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I know this film had terrible reviews, but I enjoyed this film. Not long at about 94-95 minutes with plenty of action. I caught a twilight showing for just $6.50 and got my entertainment fix. Too bad this film bombed at the box office because I would love to see a sequel.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I saw this in a Dolby Cinema with AMC A-List and I was satisfied. It wasn't a masterpiece but wasn't intended to be. I thought it was 90 minutes with some fun actors showing some charisma and some cool action sequences. I'm glad I saw it. I also appreciated that it wasn't overlong; too many movies these days feel longer than they need to be, with extra setup and resolution that ends up being redundant, and that wasn't the case here. They set up the characters and the scenario, let it play out, and then ended the movie without lingering.

It was exactly the kind of movie that I needed the day I saw it. So great to leave work and catch a fun little action movie on the way home.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I saw this in a Dolby Cinema with AMC A-List and I was satisfied. It wasn't a masterpiece but wasn't intended to be. I thought it was 90 minutes with some fun actors showing some charisma and some cool action sequences. I'm glad I saw it. I also appreciated that it wasn't overlong; too many movies these days feel longer than they need to be, with extra setup and resolution that ends up being redundant, and that wasn't the case here. They set up the characters and the scenario, let it play out, and then ended the movie without lingering.

It was exactly the kind of movie that I needed the day I saw it. So great to leave work and catch a fun little action movie on the way home.

That's my take too as I thought the length of the film was perfect. Peter Berg knows how to make action films.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Didn't we already discuss this movie? Must be in another thread - or I was on another board!

Saw it opening night and thought it was awful. Incoherent and shot/edited like Berg said "I want people to believe a hyperactive squirrel made this movie".

Absurdly overcomplicated plot for a simple "go from A to Z" story. Action felt incomprehensible. Characters were annoying and/or bland. Actors just yelled at each other a lot.

Add to that a non-ending and this was a simply terrible movie!

 

[Robert Crawford]

Didn't we already discuss this movie? Must be in another thread - or I was on another board!

Saw it opening night and thought it was awful. Incoherent and shot/edited like Berg said "I want people to believe a hyperactive squirrel made this movie".

Absurdly overcomplicated plot for a simple "go from A to Z" story. Action felt incomprehensible. Characters were annoying and/or bland. Actors just yelled at each other a lot.

Add to that a non-ending and this was a simply terrible movie!

Shocking!

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Shocking!

I know you guys like to believe that I hate all movies - which is getting tiresome, TBH - but seriously, you're gonna give me crap over this atrocity?

22% with critics on RT and 49% with audiences, so I'm in the majority on this one. It got widely panned...

 

[Robert Crawford]

I know you guys like to believe that I hate all movies - which is getting tiresome, TBH - but seriously, you're gonna give me crap over this atrocity?

22% with critics on RT and 49% with audiences, so I'm in the majority on this one. It got widely panned...

You like what you like and the same applies to me. It just appears I like more films than you.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

You like what you like and the same applies to me. It just appears I like more films than you.

Which is neither good nor bad. As you note, I like what I like and dislike what I don't, just like you.

I don't ever want to dislike a movie. If I didn't love films, I'd be a terrible masochist given how many of them I watch.

But I'm not going to pretend I liked something I thought wasn't good.

I simply wish I didn't have to get various forms of criticism on this board when I don't like a movie. I'm thick-skinned but the frequent jibes I get make me less eager to participate in discussions...

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Colin, I for one appreciate your point of view and always look forward to your posts. You’re easily one of my favorite voices on this forum.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I simply wish I didn't have to get various forms of criticism on this board when I don't like a movie. I'm thick-skinned but the frequent jibes I get make me less eager to participate in discussions...

If you think that was criticism then I don't know what to tell you. You disliking Mile 22 or even Peppermint that came out today is normal because both films aren't quality films. However, to me, I find a level of entertainment in both mindless action films. I'm sure there are some dog films that you like as entertainment that I think are bad films and get no entertainment out of them. It's called film appreciation and each of us have different subjective levels of it.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Colin, I for one appreciate your point of view and always look forward to your posts. You’re easily one of my favorite voices on this forum.

Same here, but I don't know if I would call him one of my favorite voices. Just kidding, really I am. The problem with conversing on the internet is some of the humor and human reaction gets loss in posts that wouldn't be if we were having the conversation face to face.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Same here, but I don't know if I would call him one of my favorite voices. Just kidding, really I am. The problem with conversing on the internet as some of the humor and human reaction gets loss in posts that wouldn't be if we were having the conversation face to face.

Thanks for that. I don't want to make this a pity party, and I understand that some of the pokes at me for allegedly hating everything were done as good-natured jabs, but they add up after a while.

And FWIW, I like brainless action movies as much as the next guy, but I need some form of competence involved, and I thought "Mile 22" seemed poorly made.

I consciously avoided reviews of it before I saw it. I liked all 3 Wahl/Berg movies so I expected to like this one.

I don't mind its brainlessness - I dislike its general incoherence and inane hyperactivity.

It's like Berg knew the movie sucked so he figured he'd cut it/shoot it in such a spastic way that he hoped no one would notice!

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I just took that more as “let’s shoot this like it’s an episode of 24” but I can see how it could also just play as hyperactive.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I just took that more as “let’s shoot this like it’s an episode of 24” but I can see how it could also just play as hyperactive.

TBH, I kind liked how they filmed it. It might not have worked for me if the film was 2 hours long.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Yeah - I don’t think any of that movie works for me if it was two hours long. It was exactly perfect for what I wanted, which was 90 minutes with my brain switched to the “off” position.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

They should have just called this "Mark Wahlberg being a verbally abusive asshole to people just trying to do their jobs for 90 minutes".

Saw it as the second movie in a double feature, and wish I hadn't stayed. The whole thing with Lauren Cohan's custody issues seemed tacked on and pointless.

The framing of the main storyline as flashbacks from a debriefing of what went wrong felt like an unnecessary complication of a relatively simple story.

 

[Robert Crawford]

They should have just called this "Mark Wahlberg being a verbally abusive asshole to people just trying to do their jobs for 90 minutes".

Saw it as the second movie in a double feature, and wish I hadn't stayed. The whole thing with Lauren Cohan's custody issues seemed tacked on and pointless.

The framing of the main storyline as flashbacks from a debriefing of what went wrong felt like an unnecessary complication of a relatively simple story.

I liked this film and I don't think I would've stayed for it as the second movie in a double feature.

 

[Dave Scarpa]

I know this film had terrible reviews, but I enjoyed this film. Not long at about 94-95 minutes with plenty of action. I caught a twilight showing for just $6.50 and got my entertainment fix. Too bad this film bombed at the box office because I would love to see a sequel.

I watched it tonight the dialog, the characters all felt written to me I didn’t feel any was real, especially Walburgh